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Senior Software Engineer, Growth

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26 days ago

Base Salary

$225k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship measurable experiments across onboarding, activation, retention, and notifications.
  • Architect and scale distributed systems supporting millions of users with high availability and performance.
  • Partner with product managers and data scientists to turn growth hypotheses into technical designs and shippable experiments.
  • Mentor and elevate engineers while fostering technical excellence.
  • Balance rapid experimentation with production-grade durability where appropriate.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally with consumer-facing or growth-focused products.
  • Strong backend and/or full-stack development fundamentals, with experience such as Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, or React.
  • Experience with experimentation platforms, including feature flagging, A/B testing frameworks, or statistical significance tooling.
  • Demonstrated ability to ship iteratively and learn from real user data.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with product managers, designers, and data scientists.
  • Experience with notifications, acquisition, or user authentication and authorization at scale is a plus.
  • Mobile growth experience across iOS or Android and familiarity with LLM-powered or AI-assisted product experiences are a plus.
  • Experience in high-growth or rapidly scaling environments is a plus.

Benefits

  • Equity in the company, 401(k) match, competitive compensation, and financial coaching.
  • Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching.
  • Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and a wellness stipend.
  • Learning stipend and ongoing professional development.
  • Internet support, commuting benefits, and free lunch and gym access at the San Francisco office.
  • Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days.
  • Team outings and referral bonuses.
  • Onsite five days per week in the San Francisco office.

Tech Stack

GraphQLiOSReactRuby on Rails